Bug#532313: custom paths in asterisk.conf are ignored

[Stanisław Pitucha]

Package: asterisk
Version: 1:1.4.21.2~dfsg-3
Severity: important


Even when I define a custom path in asterisk.conf and point asterisk at
it, the daemon ignores them. I believe, asterisk shouldn't try to read
anything from /etc/asterisk/... in my situation:

[vi at kahlua ...gs/asterisk-configs/sip-iax]$ cat asterisk.conf  
[global]
astetcdir => /home/viraptor/voip-configs/asterisk-configs/sip-iax
astmoddir => /usr/lib/asterisk/modules
astvarlibdir => /var/lib/asterisk
astagidir => /usr/share/asterisk/agi-bin
astspooldir => /var/spool/asterisk
astrundir => /home/viraptor/voip-configs/asterisk-configs/run
astlogdir => /home/viraptor/voip-configs/asterisk-configs/log

[vi at kahlua ...gs/asterisk-configs/sip-iax]$ /usr/sbin/asterisk -C
/home/viraptor/voip-configs/asterisk-configs/sip-iax/asterisk.conf -f
-vvvvv
Asterisk 1.4.21.2~dfsg-3, Copyright (C) 1999 - 2008 Digium, Inc. and
others.
Created by Mark Spencer <markster at digium.com>
Asterisk comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; type 'core show warranty'
for details.
This is free software, with components licensed under the GNU General
Public
License version 2 and other licenses; you are welcome to redistribute it
under
certain conditions. Type 'core show license' for details.
=========================================================================
This package has been modified for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution
Please report all bugs to http://bugs.debian.org/asterisk
=========================================================================
 == Parsing
  '/home/viraptor/voip-configs/asterisk-configs/sip-iax/asterisk.conf':
  Found
 == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/extconfig.conf': Not found (Permission
  denied)
Unable to open pid file '/var/run/asterisk/asterisk.pid': Permission
  denied
Unable to bind socket to /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl: Permission
  denied
 == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/logger.conf': Not found (Permission
  denied)
Unable to open logger.conf: Permission denied; default settings will be
  used.
[Jun  8 13:45:18] ERROR[32525]: logger.c:615 init_logger: Unable
  to create event log: Permission denied

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages asterisk depends on:
ii  adduser              3.110               add and remove users and groups
ii  asterisk-config      1:1.4.21.2~dfsg-3   Configuration files for Asterisk
ii  asterisk-sounds-main 1:1.4.21.2~dfsg-3   Core Sound files for Asterisk (Eng
ii  libasound2           1.0.20-2            shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libc-client2007b     8:2007b~dfsg-1.1+b1 c-client library for mail protocol
ii  libc6                2.9-12              GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcap2              1:2.16-5            support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libcurl3             7.18.2-8.1          Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii  libgcc1              1:4.4.0-5           GCC support library
ii  libgsm1              1.0.12-1            Shared libraries for GSM speech co
ii  libiksemel3          1.2-4               C library for the Jabber IM platfo
ii  libncurses5          5.7+20090523-1      shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libnewt0.52          0.52.10-3           Not Erik's Windowing Toolkit - tex
ii  libogg0              1.1.3-5             Ogg Bitstream Library
ii  libpopt0             1.14-4              lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libpq5               8.3.7-1             PostgreSQL C client library
ii  libpri1.0            1.4.3-3             Primary Rate ISDN specification li
ii  libradiusclient-ng2  0.5.6-1             Enhanced RADIUS client library
ii  libsnmp15            5.4.1~dfsg-12       SNMP (Simple Network Management Pr
ii  libspeex1            1.2~rc1-1           The Speex codec runtime library
ii  libspeexdsp1         1.2~rc1-1           The Speex extended runtime library
ii  libsqlite0           2.8.17-4            SQLite shared library
ii  libssl0.9.8          0.9.8g-16           SSL shared libraries
ii  libstdc++6           4.4.0-5             The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libtonezone1         1:1.4.11~dfsg-3     tonezone library (runtime)
ii  libvorbis0a          1.2.0.dfsg-5        The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisenc2        1.2.0.dfsg-5        The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvpb0              4.2.39-1            Voicetronix telephony hardware use
ii  unixodbc             2.2.11-16+b1        ODBC tools libraries
ii  zlib1g               1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13   compression library - runtime

asterisk recommends no packages.

Versions of packages asterisk suggests:
pn  asterisk-dev  <none>                     (no description available)
pn  asterisk-doc  <none>                     (no description available)
pn  asterisk-h323 <none>                     (no description available)
ii  ekiga         3.2.1~git20090515.9d0263-1 H.323 and SIP compatible VoIP clie
pn  kphone        <none>                     (no description available)
pn  ohphone       <none>                     (no description available)
pn  twinkle       <none>                     (no description available)

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